Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Melapress Melapress Role Editor melapress-role-editor allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Melapress Role Editor: from n/a through 1.3.0.
The Melapress Role Editor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.1. This is due to a misconfigured capability check on the 'savesecondaryrolesfield' function. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to assign themselves additional roles including Administrator.